Impact of Health Awareness Programme on Knowledge and Practice Regarding Revised Protocol of Delivering Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) among Nursing Students

The cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines were updated in 2010 by the American Heart Association and International Liaison Committee on resuscitation emphasizing high quality CPR and change in the order of interventions for all age groups except newborns. Competency of nurses in CPR is a critical factor in patient outcome from cardiac arrest. There is compelling evidences to suggest that registered nurses across continents lack competence in the performance of a proper CPR.

The study aimed at assessing the existing knowledge and skill on revised protocol of delivering CPR among nursing students, evaluating the impact of awareness programme on revised protocol of delivering CPR and to find correlation between knowledge and practice.

A one group pre-test post-test pre-experimental approach was adopted. The study was conducted among 50 nursing students conveniently selected from two nursing colleges of Vadodara. The content validity of the tool and teaching plan was established. Reliability of the tool was tested by split half technique and inter rater reliability.

It was found that the impact of the health awareness programme in terms of increase in knowledge score among nursing students was 45% whereas increase in skill score was found to be 54.33%.

There is a need for a re-education and training for those who have undergone training on CPR as per the previously established guideline.